Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still, it was sad when the Mirror died, because it is always sad when a great metropolitan daily disappears. At least the Mirror could have been improved; it had potential, and now that potential is gone. Founding a newspaper is an expensive business these days; when one dies, another is not likely to spring up in its place...
...present position of the English-speaking universities is precarious. They are among the very few centers of rational thought left in a frightened country, and as such are the object of frequent attacks by the government. The universities now are sad and depressed communities in which many persons are acutely aware of South Africa's approaching Gotterdammerung. Many top faculty members have emigrated; many high calibre students go overseas for graduate study and never return...
...subdued gesturing of Oleg Popov, who is celebrated as one of the world's great clowns. A thoroughly trained circus performer, he can walk the tightwire or the slack wire; he is both animal trainer and juggler. He takes no pratfalls, and he is not the sad flopsy-mopsy fopsy that most U.S. clowns make themselves, but it is difficult to see why he is so renowned. Hailed as a star, he is really little more than a mildly engaging filler...
...Boston last week, a Negro Paul Revere on horseback led a march of 10,000 up to a 93-year-old school in protest against a sad fact-Boston has not only the nation's oldest public school system, but also its most senile...
What goes on behind the sad facades of the store-front churches of evangelical sects in the Negro ghettos of great cities in the eastern U.S. is almost unknown to literature for the simple reason that both priests and parishioners are not literary people; often, indeed, they are barely literate. James Baldwin was a notable exception. But William Goyen, a white, 42-year-old Texan who never tried to save anybody, gives a far more readable and enjoyable account of Negro evangelists than Baldwin...